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"As Ebola and other emerging diseases continue to dominate our headlines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to be America's front line of defense against the outbreak of a devastating epidemic. However, the agency has stumbled, and an examination of its activities reveal an institution often more focused upon advancing progressive social priorities and nanny-state interventions than simply performing well at its one intended job."

As Ebola and other emerging diseases continue to dominate our headlines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to be America's front line of defense against the outbreak of a devastating epidemic. However, the agency has stumbled, and an examination of its activities reveal an institution often more focused upon advancing progressive social priorities and nanny-state interventions than simply performing well at its one intended job.

It has been 3 years since the Patient Protection and AffordableCare Act was pushed through Congress by Democrats and signedinto law by President Barack Obama. Yet despite the re-electionof President Obama and the law’s narrow survival in the SupremeCourt, the future of the still-controversial law is anything but certain.(READ THE REPORT)

The recent news cycle has been dominated with concern over the US Government's budget process: the debt, deficits, sequestration, and the continuing failure of the Senate to pass a budget in over 4 years.This FreedomWorks Issue Analysis is a brief history of budget reform in America. Clues how to solve the budgetary crisis of today and those of the future may very well be contained in the lessons of the past. Check out this FreedomWorks Issue Analysis and click here to learn more:

The Marketplace Fairness Act would allow the states to compel online retailers to collect taxes on remote sales, increasing the cost of doing business and damaging competition unfairly.The Act places burdensome administration costs on some of the country's most innovative retailers, regulating them in a way that is at once discriminatory and harmful to economic growth.

Paycheck protection laws prevent union leadership from spending compulsory membership dues on political expenses prior to obtaining consent from membership as individuals.Paycheck protection programs have proved to be effective, so long as they remain comprehensive. Given the scope of unions in the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania workers stand to retain greater freedom and more of their hard-earned paychecks if an undiluted paycheck protection program is implemented in the state.

What Americans saw Wednesday night in Denver was not just a debate between two presidential candidates, but the contrast they’ve been wanting to see since 2008. It happened not because of a good night for one or a bad night for the other, but as a direct result of who the candidates are as people.

It was great when we started referring to Barack Obama as the “food stamp president” — and such a fitting title for the current head of the White House. Unfortunately liberals eat up government dependency, and they started wearing the new phrase as a badge of honor.Take Peter Edelman, Associate Dean of Georgetown Law, who gave a talk in June explaining why he believes Obama is an absolute genius. Here’s a transcription from The Blaze’s video:

Foreign Aid: where does the insanity end? Is foreign aid a Democrat or Republican issue? According to Sen. Rand Paul, it is a bipartisan effort that is an untouchable. That’s right, both sides of the political spectrum expect to continue aid without question. If graft and abuse are found, the answer is to simply send more.

Taxpayers, find a sustainable way to gird your loins, here we go again.Silicon Valley-based solar company SoloPower is poised to draw a loan from the Department of Energy to expand its factory, a situation that’s drawing parallels to now-infamous Solyndra.